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SHOE BRUSH SET.

Patented June 17. 1919.

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JOHN MORRISON, JR., 0F G-LENS FALLS, NEW YORK.

SHOE-BRUSH SET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1'7, 1919.

Application filed December 21, 1917. Serial No. 208,212.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MORRISON, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Glens Falls, in'the county of Warren and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Brush Sets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to shoe brush sets in which there are two brushes of diiferent character, so connected together that for some purposes they may be handled as a unit and for other purposes they may be instantly disconnected from each other and used separately. In a shoe brush set of this general type there is usually a large brush having a flat portion serving the double purpose of a brush back and a handle, and a smaller brush known as a dauber and detachably mounted upon the large brush.

Vhat I seek to do by my present invention is to improve the shoe brush set in the following particulars:

I. To so arrange the sizes and proportions of the brushes that when the set as a unit is rested face downward upon the flat surface of a table or the like, the bristles of the dauber do not reach the flat surface, and are thus prevented from soiling the same.

II. To provide the large brush wlth a cushion mounted upon the back thereof and serving as a seat for the dauber handle, 1n order ti) give the dauber a neat, clinging fit when in position and thus do away with a tendency for the two brushes to scratch each other, or to rattle or chatter when jarred, or to become easily displaced from each other by accidental causes.

III. To conceal the cushion just mentioned, by placing it beneath the strap with which the larger brush is provided.

IV. T 0 give the brushes proper form to avoid injury to certain hard orbrittle portions thereof whenever the dauber handle is forcibly thrust into position to complete the set, or whenever the set as a whole is subjected to jarring so as to cause undes1ra ble motions between the brushes, or when the set is subjected to a heavy blow due to accidentally dropping it upon the floor.

V. To improve the appearance and general efliciency of the shoe brush set.

Reference is to be made to the accompanymg drawing forming a part of this specificat on, and in which like letters indicate hkeparts in each of the views.

- Flgur'e is a View partly in side elevation and partly broken away, showing the dauber get complete and resting upon a flat surace.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Fig. 3 is a view partly in side elevation and partly broken away indicating the manner in which the brushes may be protected from injury of the kind above specified in paragraph IV.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan of the larger brush, conveniently termed a polishing brush.

A brush back is shown at 4, and extending from it are bristles 5, these two parts together constituting a large brush which is used for polishing the shoes. The brush back 4 may be made of wood or composition.

A strap 6 extends across the brush back, and is secured by fastenings 7 to the edges of the brush back. This strap is made preferably of leather, but may be composed of canvas, cloth or other flexible material appropriate for the purpose. The strap has the general form of an arch.

Secured rigidly upon this brush back is a cushion 8, made of soft, resilient material, in this particular instance felt. The cushion is located beneath the strap, and is normally hidden thereby. Its width is nearly the same as that of the strap. The cushion is normally fiat on top, but with the dauber brush in position as indicated in Fig. 2 a depression 9 is temporarily formed, due to the pressure of the dauber handle. Thecushion is provided with a base strip 8 to facilitate its adhesion to the brush back 4.

A dauber handle'is shown at 10, and is provided with a head 11 which carries a facing 12, made of cement, and bristles 13 extend laterally therefrom. The handle 10, with its head 11 and the bristles 13, together constitute a dauber, Which may be of the usual or any desired construction.

The handle 10 of the dauber may be thrust endwise between the strap 7 and the cushion 8, so as to fitinto the depression 9, where it is held by the pressure of the strap 6, as shown in Fig. 1. In order to disconnect the dauber brush from the larger brush it is simply pulled out, endwise.

If desired, the dauber brush may be drawn out partially, and yet not disconnected from the larger brush. The two brushes may then be handled practically as a unit, the bristles of the dauber being used for smearing blacking or the like upon the shoe, and the bristles of the larger brush being used for polishing. This done, the dauber can be quickly pushed back into its normal position, as shown in Fig. 1. The set may be used as just described in instances where the operator is in a great hurry, or is crowded for room in which to work or to lay down the brushes separately, or where he desires merely to touch up a spot upon one of his shoes.

Generally, however, it is better to take the brushes apart, use them separately and one at a time, and finally telescope them into normal position.

As will be noted from Fig. 1, the parts are so proportioned that when the set rests in normal position upon a flat surface 14 the bristles 5 of the larger brush engage such surface but the bristles 13 of the dauber brush do not. Thus the dauber is prevented from soiling the surface upon which the set is resting. This fact renders it practicable to rest the brush set upon almost any available surface, such as that of a pillow, a towel or a car seat.

When the parts are in their respective normal positions, as indicated in Fig. 1, the set is in proper form to place in a suitable box for the purpose, or dropped into a suit case or the like. By pressure of the strap the handle of the dauber brush is held resiliently and firmly between the cushion and the strap, and is thus supported out of direct engagement with the back of the larger brush. Hence the brush handles are prevented from chattering or rattling, as well as from scratching and rubbing each other.

The cement facing 12 carried by the dauber brush is usually quite brittle, and is very easily chipped or otherwise injured, in the event that the brush set is accidentally dropped upon the floor. In many instances the dauber brush is rendered altogether useless by thus dropping the brush set accidentally, and in practice a brush set is dropped quite often, as for instance when rested upon a car seat and then dislodged by the motion of the train. Such an injury to the dauber usually causes inconvenience and annoyance. Sometimes the larger brush is also injured.

In the construction of my brush set, there fore, I give the brushes such form as to prevent injury to the brushes, and particularly to the dauber brush, or at least to reduce to a minimum the extent of such injury, due to the accidental dropping of the brush set.

To this end I give the facing 12 a rounded or convex form, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, and in one end of the brush back 4 I provide a concavity 14, as may be understood from Figs. 1, 3 and 4. The concavity 14 is essentially a bevel, having its greatest depth in the middle of the brush back 4, and tapering off to zero toward the edges of this brush back. The parts are so proportioned and arranged that the rounded facing 12 may engage and glide upon the surface bounded by the concavity 14, as indicated in Fig. 3. This occurs in the event that the brush set is so dropped that the head 11 of the dauber brush strikes upon a floor 14 or other flat surface. In such event the larger brush is driven downwardly, and as the dauber brush is suddenly stopped, the two brushes glide or slip slightly in relation to each other, as may be understood from Fig. 3. This causes also a slight turning movement of the brushes relatively to each other, so that the space between the brush back 4 and the dauber handle 10 is greater near the floor than at the upper end of the brush set. Thus there is a yielding as between the two brushes they cushion each other, and as a result the tendency of the brushes to become injured by the fall is greatly diminished.

I have in practice demonstrated that with this arrangement the brush set may be dropped repeatedly without injury to either brush, whereas without this arrangement the brushes, and especially the dauber brush, cannot stand such dropping without substantial injury.

I do not limit myself to the precise construction shown, as variations may be made therefrom without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim 1. A device of the character described, comprising a brush provided with bristles and with a brush back, a cushion of resilient material mounted upon said brush back, a strap of flexible material extending over said cushion and secured to said brush back, and a dauber provided with a handle properly fitted to be thrust in between said cushion and the adjacent portion of said strap.

2. A device of the character described,comprising a polishing brush provided with a hard brush back, said brush back having a concavity, and a dauber brush detachably mounted upon said brush back and provided with a facing for fitting into said concavity, in order to enable said dauber brush, when subjected to a sudden blow, to glance slightly within said concavity and thus to protect said brush back and said dauber brush from to cause said facing to glance when driven injury by said bloW. hard thereagainst, and a strap carried by 3. In a shoe brush set, the combination, said polishing brush and normally engaging with a dauber brush having a facing of britsaid dauber brush as said facing of said tle material and bristles held by said facing, dauber brush thus glances upon said guidof a polishing brush provided with a guiding surface of the polishing brush.

ing surface to be engaged by said facing, said guiding surface having suitable form JOHN MORRISON, JR.

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